Family Law

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George Clooney finds 'fun' in stirring up feud with tabloid

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Jul 20, 2014

George Clooney has opened up about his feud with a British tabloid, insisting it is "fun to slap those bad guys every once in a while". Earlier this month (Jul14), the Hollywood star slammed Mailonline.com - the Internet arm of the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper - for publishing a false story about his upcoming marriage to British lawyer Amal Alamuddin.
The article suggested Clooney's future mother-in-law was unhappy with the match, and editors at the tabloid subsequently issued an apology, insisting the story was "not a fabrication" but accepting it was "inaccurate".
Clooney publicly rejected the apology, and in a new interview with Variety, the actor admits he continued the feud with tabloid bosses to point out just how inaccurate some of their stories can be.
He explains, "It's just fun to slap those bad guys every once in a while, knock them around."
Clooney adds, "I would sit with my friends and we'd just go, 'So they just sat at a computer and just went, 'OK, this is what I'm gonna say today.' I mean, literally, because you just go 'There isn't literally an element of truth in this.'"
Although Clooney does not take tabloid gossip too seriously, he fears the publication of rumours could lead to a bigger problem in the media: "You just laugh, and let it go. I'm used to it after all these years. But the thing that bothers me is how much the Daily Mail is now bleeding into American press and becoming a source for some pretty legitimate newspapers. So that's the thing that worries me.
"Those are really bad guys and they do tend to tee off on everybody. It's fun when you can go, 'Well, this one, I know I have all the facts right.'
"Usually the argument is: 'Hey, we're not gonna tell you our source,' and, 'Prove it.' And when they actually do it themselves it's so great. You go, 'OK, well you obviously just s**ewed this (up), so I think I can get you now."
He adds, "That's why you pick your fights at a tabloid. Every day they write things that aren't true, but every once in a while they write something that is actually dangerous to your family, and it's probably not true. And that's the one you pick."

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Veteran stage and screen icon Elaine Stritch has died at the age of 89. The actress passed away at her home in Birmingham, Michigan on Thursday (17Jul14).
The star, known for her brash attitude and sharp tongue, began her career with her first stage role in 1944 and made her Broadway debut in Loco just two years later (46).
She went on to become a regular in New York's famous theatre district, featuring in a hit 1952 revival of the musical Pal Joey and landing her first leading Broadway role in Goldilocks in 1958. Her other theatre credits include parts in Noel Coward's Sail Away, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company, a role she reprised in 1972 when it opened in London's West End.
She later won high praise for her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, for which she won a Tony Award in 2001. During the production, in which she recounted her life story, Stritch revealed she had tried and failed to win the role of Dorothy Zbornak in hit TV series The Golden Girls, a job which went instead to Bea Arthur.
Her early TV appearances came on shows like The Growing Paynes, Studio One and the classic British comedy series Two's Company. In more recent years, she appeared in U.S. soap One Life to Live, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Law &amp; Order, while she earned an Emmy Award playing Alec Baldwin's mother on 30 Rock.
Stritch's filmography included parts in the 1957 remake of A Farewell to Arms, The Perfect Furlough, Providence and Woody Allen films September (1987) and Small Time Crooks (2000). She also portrayed Winona Ryder's grandmother in Autumn in New York and Jane Fonda's acerbic mum in 2005's Monster in Law.
The actress, who was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995, bid farewell to fans with her Movin' Over and Out concert series in the Big Apple in April, 2013, before moving to Michigan to spend more time with her family.

Model Christie Brinkley paid tribute to her ex-husband Billy Joel's late mother by writing a heartfelt letter praising the family matriarch. The Piano Man's mum, Rosalind Nyman Joel, died aged 92 on Sunday (13Jul14) at a hospice in Long Island, New York.
Brinkley and Joel's marriage ended 20 years ago, but the blonde beauty was moved to write an Instagram.com post about her former mother-in-law, who was grandmother to the former couple's daughter Alexa Ray Joel.
Along with a youthful black and white photo of Rosalind, Brinkley added in the caption, "At sad times we look for ways to find the good to lift our spirits, So I have only to imagine what Rosalinda's Eyes have seen to find cause to celebrate a life well lived!
"Just in this year alone she saw her son, (Billy Joel) receive the Kennedy Center Honor, the highest cultural honor possible, from the President of the United States no less, and Rosalind greatly appreciated the arts (sic)!
"She also saw her son get a regular gig at Madison Square Garden (where he already holds a record and where Roz is welcomed on a first name basis!). And her eyes sparkled with pride and joy as the former Gilbert and Sullivan chorus girl, watched her granddaughter Alexa perform at the famed Cafe Carlyle surrounded by a large group of her friends enjoying themselves.
"I know as a mom myself that when you see your kids happy healthy and enjoying their passions you feel content and happy. Rosalinda's Eyes will live on not only in the song inspired by her, but in Billy, and Alexa... and Nanny Roz herself would find that worth celebrating. #cherishedgrandmother #restinpeace (sic)."

Actress Angie Harmon has been granted a protective order against a trespasser who is allegedly harassing her family. The former Law & Order star claims Janice Lee Davis regularly comes to her Los Angeles home, pretending to be her landlord and demands rent.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ.com, Harmon claims Davis arrives at the gate to her house every Thursday and orders the actress to pay overdue rent.
Davis allegedly gained entry earlier this month (Jul14), but by the time Harmon called police the unwelcome guest had already left the scene.
The order protects herself, her three children, their nanny, and a friend who lives in the house. Her husband, former American footballer Jason Sehorn, was not listed in the order.

Members of Michael Jackson's extended family are set to become the stars of a new reality TV show. The six-episode series is due to premiere on America's Reelz cable channel in November (14) and will focus on the ex-wife of Jackson's brothers Jermaine and Randy, Alejandra Jackson, and her children.
Alejandra and her family moved out of the Jackson family home in Encino, California following the Thriller superstar's death in 2009 and they suggest the new show will examine the reasons behind their move.
Speaking to reporters at the summer TV critics' tour in America, Alejandra's daughter Genevieve said, "We didn't want it to happen that way... We were very sheltered. There's a lot of outside people coming in and out of our house. We had to watch what we said."
Son Donte says of the move, "Some of the politics came into play."
Alejandra was originally married to Randy Jackson, who is father to Genevieve and Randy Jr., but later married his brother Jermaine and gave birth to another two sons - Jaafar and Jermajesty. She has also raised Donte since the age of two after he was adopted by her former father and mother-in-law, Joe and Katherine Jackson.

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I expected quite a few things from Zach Braff's long-buffered Garden State follow-up Wish I Was Here: a brooding template, quirky imagery, Shins music. But I did not expect consistent, detailed conversations about Jewish law and scripture. Sure, Garden State included nods to the religion and culture (with which Braff was raised) but hardly to the degree that we see in Wish I Was Here. From the very first scene, in which Braff's character's daughter Grace (played by Joey King, a highlight in the flick) cites her rabbi's admonition of foul language, we're embedded in a distinctly Jewish atmosphere — one that, at times, gets so specific that I wondered what the experience of watching such a film might be for someone who didn't grow up with the religion, like I did.
Full scenes revolve around the practices of Grace's adherence to the religion, without much exposition as to what we're seeing. Braff chauffers his viewers through the sequences poking fun at or offering affectionate nods to the particulars of Yeshiva academia with a "Get it?" or "Remember that?" attitude, insinuating a familiarity that the majority of his audience — if even close to a direct ratio of the population in large — probably won't have.
Movies about Christianity have the luxury of going specific — no matter what religion you subscribe to, if you grew up in the Western World you more than likely know the basic gist of what goes on in church. But when it comes to Judaism, direct depictions can feel esoteric.
It's not as though Braff is the only director to venture the illustration of Jewish religion and culture in a mainstream movie (as "indie" as Braff's persona is, he's still well-known enough for his work to garner public attention). We think immediately of Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, two directors who have frequently colored their movies with a Jewish context. The difference, however, between the Allen/Brooks methods (which are, furthermore, very different from one another) and that of Braff is that you're more likely to see Allen take a jab at nebbishy stereotypes or Brooks make a crass crack about circumcisions than you are to see either delve into the particulars of the day-to-day at a Yeshiva school.
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A recent film that drove us fairly deep into Jewish education is A Serious Man, the Coen Brothers dark comedy that centers around a physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his son's disciplinary tribulations at Hebrew school. While the Coen Brothers dabble quite frequently in the fringes of our world, we're not surprised to see them deliver such a vivid portrait of Judaism in the Midwest. In fact, A Serious Man devotes itself to the idea that Stuhlbarg's family is stamped with an "outsider" label,
But Braff adheres to no such idea, which is at once puzzling and quite gratifying. With the exception of a single one-off joke from a gentile neighbor boy, Judaism is never meant to feel like anything but "the norm." We're invited into the film through the Bloom family, and as such are welcomed into their customs, which are treated with the same engagement, familiarity, and normative mentality with which any Martin Scorsese film would treat Catholicism.
It's an interesting, and impressive, move by Braff. Although we've seen Judaism depicted on the screen time and time again, Wish I Was Here is a unique example of a Jewish movie: one that isn't driven by a narrative entrenched in Jewish history but is foremost reverent to the religion; one that treats it not so much like an "outer tier" culture but a central, basic, human practice. As loving as the tributes to Judaism of Allen, Brooks, and the Coens are, they are often inclined to approach the religion as a "something else." But Wish I Was Here just treats it as the something.
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Socialite Nicole Richie has taken responsibility for setting up her brother-in-law Benji Madden with his new lady love Cameron Diaz. The Good Charlotte rocker and actress Diaz sparked rumours of a new romance when they were spotted spending time together in May (14), and reports suggested they had been introduced by mutual friend Richie.
Now the fashion designer, who is married to Benji's twin brother Joel, has opened up about her matchmaking project.
During an appearance on U.S. chat show Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday (08Jul14), Richie was asked if she approved of the new couple's budding romance, to which she replied, "I approve of anything that's going to make Benji happy. I am a devoted sister-in-law. I'm happy for anyone who is happy, and I want everyone to be surrounded with love."
When questioned if she was the one who officially set Madden and Diaz up, Richie admitted, "Yes. I'm going to take responsibility for everything!"
Diaz recently took their relationship to the next level by introducing the rocker to her whole family during a reunion in Florida over America's Independence Day holiday weekend (04-06Jul14).

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Hollywood actor George Clooney has won an apology from a U.K. tabloid over the publication of false reports about his fiancee's family.
The Ocean's Eleven star publicly criticised the story, which suggested his future mother-in-law was opposed to his upcoming marriage to Amal Alamuddin because of religious beliefs, in a column for the USA Today newspaper on Wednesday (09Jul14).
Clooney branded the claims "completely fabricated" and accused editors of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper and its Internet arm, which originally published the story, of "inciting violence" by exploiting "religious differences where none exist".
The Hollywood heartthrob and his fiancee have now won an apology from the publication. A statement from Daily Mail bosses reads, "The MailOnline story was not a fabrication but supplied in good faith by a reputable and trusted freelance journalist... We only became aware of Mr Clooney's concerns this morning and have launched a full investigation. However, we accept Mr Clooney's assurance that the story is inaccurate and we apologise to him, Miss Amal Alamuddin and her mother, Baria, for any distress caused."
Clooney is expected to wed the human rights lawyer later this year (14).

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Singer Solange Knowles is adamant there is no ill feeling over her infamous elevator bust-up with her rapper brother-in-law Jay Z, insisting: "We are all good."
The pair hit headlines in May (14) when surveillance footage emerged showing Knowles lashing out at her sister Beyonce's husband as they left a party at a New York hotel.
Halo hitmaker Beyonce later issued a statement insisting her husband and sister "each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred", and now Solange has spoken out to reveal the famous family has moved on from the scandal.
She tells Lucky magazine, "What's important is that my family and I are all good. What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that."

British socialite Pippa Middleton felt "embarrassed" by the attention she received for wearing a body-hugging bridesmaid dress on the day her elder sister married Prince William. Kate Middleton became Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge when she married the British royal in London in 2011, and her younger sibling became a sensation as she escorted her sister down the aisle in front of TV viewers across the globe.
Pippa has now given her first TV interview and spoken of the magical wedding which captured the imagination of millions, insisting she had no idea her sister's big day would be such a huge event.
She tells America's Today show, "It sounds funny to say, but we saw it, as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realise, perhaps, the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the the roles as any family would."
Prince William's sister-in-law also admits she felt embarrassed by the attention her now-famous Alexander McQueen bridesmaid dress received, "It was completely unexpected... I think the plan was not really for it to be a significant dress. Really just to sort of blend in with the (wedding dress) train.. (it was) embarrassing, definitely... it wasn't planned."
She adds of the dress, "It's actually still in my wardrobe at home. I haven't worn it since. But I think I'll just keep it there... I think it's the sort of thing that I'm sure I'll bring out if someone wanted to see it or my children one day want to see it. Then I'll show them."
Pippa goes on to reveal she has felt "publicly bullied" when she reads stories about herself which are not true, but she is adamant joining the royal family has not affected her relationship with her sister, insisting, "We spend a lot of time together. We still do a lot together as a family. We have a very normal, sisterly relationship. We're very close."

Synopsis

A drama series about a successful family law attorney whose husband and law partner files for divorce and takes his clients with him. Lynn Holt may have lost her husband and her law firm within 24 hours, but she hasn't lost her sense of humor or Danni Lipton, one of her best lawyers. The morning after her husband breaks the news to her, Lynn scrambles to find attorneys, clients and anything to make the month's mortgage payment that her husband conveniently left behind. She starts by hiring Randi King, her new divorce attorney, who has suffered her own marital headaches and is now drawing on that angst to jumpstart her career. Against her better judgment, Lynn also brings on Rex Weller, a guy whose reputation has continued to suffer since his firm went belly up and he was reduced to making infomercials.